id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_sud4vlzzuvfh5muoam3xi5yygm James Justus Carnap on concept determination: methodology for philosophy of science 2011 19 .pdf application/pdf 9564 745 47 Abstract Recent criticisms of intuition from experimental philosophy and elsewhere have helped undermine the authority of traditional conceptual analysis. science, Carnap understandably thought concept determination in philosophy should explication as "utterly irrelevant" to the philosophical analysis of concepts. required of a concept's analysis and the philosophical definitions such analyses his previous claim that explication should integrate an explicatum into a wellconnected systems of scientific concepts (1950, 2), for two reasons. The first explication integrates the concept of ecological stability into a welldeveloped mathematical theory that provides analytic methods for evaluating the fruitfulness in a stronger sense if the concept being explicated represents something This does not mean traditional conceptual analysis has no philosophical (1) Many (perhaps most) concepts that philosophers of science study seem to fall Folk concepts and intuitions: From philosophy to cognitive science. Carnap on concept determination: methodology for philosophy of science ./cache/work_sud4vlzzuvfh5muoam3xi5yygm.pdf ./txt/work_sud4vlzzuvfh5muoam3xi5yygm.txt